. Geological magazine. Fig. 1. Blatta helvetica, Heer, Coal-measures, Wing of the natural size. b. The entire insect (restored by Heer). See Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1876, vol. xxsii. pp. 60-64, pi. ix.; and 1876, Decade II. Vol. III. pp. 519-520. 80 Renews—Heers Primaeval World of Switzerland. Prof. Heer describes and figures VLidxiy of those beautiful Carboni-ferous plant-remains coated as it were with silver or gold, met within the Valais and higher up in the Col de Balme. These plants havealso been found at the Col dAnterne above Charaouni, and wereexamined in 1856, b
. Geological magazine. Fig. 1. Blatta helvetica, Heer, Coal-measures, Wing of the natural size. b. The entire insect (restored by Heer). See Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1876, vol. xxsii. pp. 60-64, pi. ix.; and 1876, Decade II. Vol. III. pp. 519-520. 80 Renews—Heers Primaeval World of Switzerland. Prof. Heer describes and figures VLidxiy of those beautiful Carboni-ferous plant-remains coated as it were with silver or gold, met within the Valais and higher up in the Col de Balme. These plants havealso been found at the Col dAnterne above Charaouni, and wereexamined in 1856, by Mr. Alfred Wills, whose collection is pre-served in the British Museum. One remarkable feature to be seenat the village of Petit Coeur, near Moutiers in the Tarentaise (due tothe inversion of the Carboniferous strata), was noticed by Elie deBeaumont in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles so long ago as1828.^ Here we find Belemnites in Secondary rocks beneath shalesof undoubted Carboniferous age.^ From the foi-matio
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